🚀 go-pugleaf

 Some of you may be physically - and feel mentally - remote
 from Vancouver, the North Shore, and the current discussion
 here about whether, and if so how, to upgrade the Lions Gate
 Bridge.  There's plenty to say on the main issue, on both
 (or several) sides.  But there seems to be general agreement
 that the considerable cost of any upgrade would have to be
 recovered with tolls.  With which we come at last to my
 point, that nobody seems to be thinking about the effect that
 collecting these tolls would have.  The North Shore approaches,
 the only place tolls could be collected and the site of the old
 plaza, are totally filled with merging traffic at today's
 volumes.  There would be a massive job to do constructing a
 new plaza and, more important, massive dislocation of rush hour
 traffic.  And if I know Greater Vancouver, the planning would
 be towards minimizing the construction and maximizing the
 dislocation with some piddling number of toll booths.